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have at some of that sweet content what a weird time in our history i m working on setting up some form of archive for it as a baseline you can use archive org to see many previous archives of the site but i m hoping that i can get something more robust set up it was a wild ride wasn t it diaries misc pg e isn t safe enough already january 26 2022 brian leubitz pg e isn t try to start fires they just keep doing it or should i say that their shoddy maintenance and cost cutting keeps starting fires sometimes people die for their negligence sometimes it s just people s homes but pg e s negligence seemingly causes tragedies every year pg e equipment sparked the 2021 dixie fire according to investigators pg e faces criminal charges in the 2020 zogg fire pg e started the massive 2019 kincade fire pg e pled guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2018 camp fire pg e was convicted of multiple safety violations stemming from a 2010 pipeline explosion that killed eight people in san bruno a nevada jury found pg e guilty of 739 counts of criminal negligence for failing to trim trees near its power lines yet for some reason the california puc last year approved pg e s annual safety certificate which allows them to access a massive ratepayer based fund to pay damages so pg e starts fires ratepayers pay they need to get their annual safety certificate again soon let s hope this time the cpuc and gov newsom do a bit more study on that this year they must do more to prevent fires and our institutions must do more to hold them accountable diaries misc sonoma sheriff goes his own dubious way on health order may 29 2020 brian leubitz the sonoma county sheriff decided that he is more important than the board of sups and the county health officer in a highly political and rather trumpy facebook post the sheriff announced that his dept will not enforce the order because transparency for a full response i highly recommend fully reading sonoma county supervisor lynda hopkins facebook response but here is a relevant snippet while there is no guide to pandemic era leadership there are some things that are pretty clearly a bad idea these include purposefully sowing fear and confusion in the community pointedly undermining the vested authority of other officials and creating counterproductive divisiveness in government without at least first giving collaboration a try the sheriff s action was three for three note that he posted this without alerting the board of supervisors or other county officials meanwhile the santa rosa pd chief has already announced that they will continue enforcement as have other county police departments https bit ly 3ga48dr this decision sows confusion at an already difficult time west county which relies on the sheriff for all law enforcement had a very difficult weekend with visitors coming to the beach and parking relieving themselves wherever they wanted when they saw facilities were closed this sets an awful precedent at a time that sonoma county and all the counties are trying to open up even now some counties are having to move towards tightening up because of new community spread infections now is not the time for sheriff departments to go rogue we are all in this together but there must be better communication the one thing we do not need is law enforcement personnel substituting their own judgement for that of our health officials for what it is worth the sheriff s facebook post basically only says that they will no longer arrest and book people for solely health order violations which from the traffic and widespread violations on sonoma county coast that i saw this weekend there was no real enforcement anyway this facebook post seems to be something of an announcement of political values rather than anything actually substantive but what it clearly does is spread confusion and encourages further violations of the health orders this sheriff was first elected in 2018 so he has a couple of years before facing election again diaries misc the budget crises return may 14 2020 brian leubitz update so the governor s may revise is out it s bad but maybe not as bad as it could be but that not as bad part is reliant on the federal government pitching in to help stave off some of the cuts the biggest cuts due to prop 98 come to education where spending will fall from 81 1 billion to 70 5 billion it also calls for a 10 pay cut for all state workers and delaying payment to the pension funds back in the heyday of calitics i got a lot of experience writing about the various budget battles but once the voters passed a ballot measure to increase taxes and then reconfirmed that a few years later that seemed like a thing of the past we had a big surplus built up a big rainy day fund under gov brown and then newsom and could even ride out an economic downturn or a natural disaster like an earthquake or a bad wildfire season but then came covid 19 and all of a sudden the budget crisis is back like it is 2009 10 california gov gavin newsom is expected to reveal his plan thursday for plugging an estimated 54 3 billion coronavirus created hole in the state budget four months ago newsom revealed a 222 2 billion spending plan that included a nearly 6 billion surplus ap frankly 54 3 billion is not cutting the fat territory the legislature has identified areas to save but given that we don t know how long the pandemic will last how deep the job losses will get any numbers still seem speculative and even if we dumped all the rainy day fund and delayed expenses for the next two years they were only able to identify 94billion including 33 billion that the federal government has not yet authorized and that of course brings us to mitch mcconnell who is not fond of um the states his position has morphed several times so it is difficult to actually pinpoint at any given time he seems to be negotiating via conservative radio with his idiotic statements about blue state bailouts new york governor andrew cuomo took him to task on that particular line of argument pointing out that new york sent 116bn more than it got from the federal government while mcconnell s kentucky took 148bn more than it sent the feds but i ll leave others to lambast mcconnell there s plenty of smart content out there on that subject already the biggest difference between the budget crises of the first decade of this century and the current crisis are the democratic supermajorities there will be no abel maldanado this year after all those seats are now held by democrats that is not to say that there won t be fights between moderates in the legislature and the more progressive legislators gavin s natural policy background puts him smack dab in the middle and so today s announcement will be informative on the direction of the state during the crisis stay tuned diaries misc will widespread fury at pg e produce actual change november 16 2019 robert cruickshank 2 comments it s been a while but your humble progressive writer is back at a california democratic party convention this time in long beach and the first night one of the main topics of conversation was what to do about pg e it may be harder to see from a bigger city but the recent power cuts have been a devastating blow to large swaths of the state already reeling from a lack of jobs a lack of infrastructure and rising inequality pg e s criminal negligence led to wildfires that have devastated communities wrecked economies and now are destroying the ability of communities across the state to remain part of a modern society at the rural caucus meeting representing the majority of california s counties anger at pg e was palpable two elected officials from el dorado county reported how the local water district had to bring in 150 generators just to ensure households and businesses had running water during the recent planned power cuts an er doctor from the sierra foothills described their concerns about keeping the lights on especially in the event of another mass casualty fire incident caused by pg e s power lines lieutenant governor eleni kounalakis whose 2018 victory was due in part to assiduous campaigning in and courting of rural california spoke directly to these concerns and pledged no mercy for pg e and there was loud applause for insisting candidates as well as the state party refusing any more contributions from pg e so it s clear everyone is ready to do something about pg e but what that is still isn t clear and whether legislators in sacramento and governor gavin newsom are actually going to act is even less clear few here seem to take newsom s have warren buffett buy pg e plan seriously there is much broader support for some kind of government takeover but there also is a growing urban rural divide over how exactly to do that but pressure is building society cannot function without electricity and pg e s negligence has meant that delivering that electricity often risks causing wildfires that burn down whole communities and as we saw in 2017 urban communities like santa rosa are just as much at risk there isn t yet a clear or consensus proposal on how to end pg e as we know it and turn it into a series of local public utility districts governed by the people they serve and not pouring campaign contributions into politicians coffers to prevent regulation and accountability but there will need to be one the public anger at pg e is strong but will run into numerous roadblocks in a legislature that hasn t yet shown a willingness to take on the investor class and bring electricity into public ownership pg e has provoked a crisis california s rank and file democrats might have the numbers to help solve it with a clear path and plan for a state takeover and how to administer the grid they could make the difference in solving the crisis diaries misc newsom s may revise thinks big and little may 9 2019 brian leubitz 1 comment the updated proposal unveiled thursday builds on the 209 billion budget the governor laid out in january it keeps in place spending to expand health coverage for undocumented immigrants and 1 75 billion to spur housing construction sac bee and he has some big plans to help california families including directing 130 million of the revenue raised from marijuana taxes to childcare california s generational changing of the guard showed in the governor s office on tuesday as gov gavin newsom rolled out proposals to lift taxes on diapers and menstrual products ideas his predecessor vetoed and reiterated his desire to spend billions of dollars from the state budget to expand services for kids calmatters there are also some rather big goals on this front additional maternity paternity leave expanding the eitc and additional childcare spending all that being said he doesn t have a way to pay for all of his stretch goals apparently speaking in kickstarter lingo so the initial goal is to start by dipping a few toes in the water and seeing how he can incorporate something like 6 months of combine leave into a long term budget plan of course all this will be changed once it passes through the legislature but gov newsom is probably a bit closer to the center of the democratic supermajority than former gov brown so we may see a little smoother process this time around diaries misc schlapp a socialist conservative union presents hilarious scorecard april 24 2019 brian leubitz while others debate whether to punch a neo nazi matt schlapp and the american conservative is seemingly questioning whether they can slap a socialist today they released their conservative scorecard it s hilarious let s peek at a few of the bill descriptions socializing rideshare services by imposing a 5 cent tax on all rides sb 1376 hill apparently a 5 cent tax to fund accessibility will bring the hellfire of socialism down upon us expanding automatic voter registration ab 1407 mccarty sure sound innocuous enough but you know how the right hates when people vote so yeah they hate when you make it easier for young people to vote and this does just that by automatically registering them to vote when they get their first driver s license their thoughts acu opposes automatic registration programs which weaken ballot integrity and makes it easier to commit voter fraud umm what voter fraud you mean this north carolina republican voter fraud yeah automatic registration has nothing to do with that interfering in private sector business operations by mandating gender quotas sb 826 jackson this one is the landmark legislation to require parity on corporate boards but to the acu progress on diversity is just the government trying to hold corporations back so yeah all this is to say guess what republicans are all very conservative democrats are all socialists and they helpfully provided that their best democrat was rudy salas and that their worst republican was brian maienschein except that asm maienschein is now a democrat so whoops anyway if you need a reminder of just how far the right has drifted you can see their scorecard here pdf diaries misc california looks to set rules for police use of force april 9 2019 brian leubitz the use of deadly force by police officers has a few bright lines most would agree that officers can use force when a suspect has a gun in a threatening position and most would agree that officers shouldn t shoot where no immediate danger exists but between those borders exists a vast area in which to define reasonable use of force california looked last year to become the first state to define that in legislation however that stalled and so the legislature is back at it as it currently stands there are two separate proposals one backed by law enforcement groups would require that each department have a defined policy on alternative forms of force and de escalation the other backed by civil rights groups would be far more strict last year s police shooting of unarmed vandalism suspect stephon clark in sacramento inspired the proposal that would allow officers to kill only if there is no reasonable alternative such as verbal persuasion or other non lethal methods of resolution or de escalation but the committee s chairman democratic assemblyman reggie jones sawyer of los angeles said a tougher standard will do little good without buy in from law enforcement organizations they re supporting a radically different plan which lawmakers also will consider requiring that every department have policies on when officers should use de escalation tactics and other alternatives to deadly force ap it s past time that while the end result is likely to be somewhere in between it is long past time that california engage in this conversation and find some action that will do something to reduce these incidents diaries misc judge strikes down high capacity magazine ban march 30 2019 brian leubitz prop 63 which was passed with highly visible support from governor then lg newsom included a ban on high capacity magazines that wa...